| Hemispheric Rose-Apple |
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| File size | 432945 |
| Original date | 2/18/12 10:44 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 45.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 4.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-G1 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Syzygium hemisphericum Family: Myrtaceae (Bottlebrush family)
Synonyms: Jambosa hemispherica, Eugenia hemispherica, Strongylocalyx hemisphaericus
Synonyms: Jambosa hemispherica, Eugenia hemispherica, Strongylocalyx hemisphaericus
Hemispheric Rose-Apple is a tree up to 20 m tall.
Bark is smooth, greyish brown, blaze cream. Branchlets are round,
hairless. Leaves are simple, opposite, cross-arranged. Leaf-stalks are
0.5-1.5 cm long, grooved, hairless. Leaves are 7.5-19 x 2.5-8 cm,
elliptic, inverted-lanceshaped, tip long-pointed and twisted or
narrowed with blunt tip, base narrow to wedge-shaped, margin entire,
pellucid gland dotted, leathery, hairless. Midrib is grooved above,
secondary nerves 8-12 pairs. Flowers are large, white, powder-puff
like, in terminal clusters. Flower-stalks are 0.5 cm long. Sepal tube
is obconic. Berry is 2-2.5 cm across, hemispherical, purple, crowned by
sepals. Hemispheric Rose-Apple is found in evergreen forests in Sri
Lanka and Western Ghats, up to 1400 m elevation.
| Identification credit: Shrikant Ingalhalikar | Photographed along KSH31 near Chorla, Karnataka. |
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